Security forces are increasingly arresting the family members of activists who are on the run – effectively holding them hostage without charge.
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Security forces are increasingly arresting the family members of activists who are on the run – effectively holding them hostage without charge.
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Pro-military Facebook accounts are seeking to drive a wedge between ethnic armed groups and civilian resistance with disinformation, but are struggling to break the unity of the anti-coup opposition.
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The World Bank has warned in a new report that Myanmar faces severe economic losses and a doubling of poverty as a result of the combined impact of the coup and COVID-19, with the military regime unable to govern effectively.
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In one of Myanmar’s poorest regions, jobs are drying up, trade is declining and farmers can’t afford to plant their monsoon crop due to measures aimed at curbing COVID-19.
The new Asia Barometer Survey finds greater tolerance of diversity but also growing political division and disenchantment with democracy since the last survey in 2015.
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Farmers winning multi-year legal battles against polluting mining companies is worth celebrating, but such victories raise questions over what the government is doing to hold polluters to account.
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Myanmar’s five million microfinance borrowers will resume repayments on May 15, but many are now jobless or on reduced incomes because of COVID-19 and the health of the US$1.3 billion sector is unclear.
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